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Flexibility drives gear motor assembly

B. Aregger (LGZ Landis & Gyr Corp., CH‐6301 Zug, Switzerland)
P. von Burg (LGZ Landis & Gyr Corp., CH‐6301 Zug, Switzerland)

Assembly Automation

ISSN: 0144-5154

Article publication date: 1 February 1989

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Abstract

ASSEMBLY automation like other technologies has not developed continuously but in innovative spurts. The 1960s and 1970s produced the first generation of dedicated assembly machines, reflecting a manufacturing environment of large volume, standardised products with few product variables. Such market conditions were provided mainly in the USA, Japan and in a few European industrial countries. Today, the European market faces increasing pressures to adapt standard products to individual customer requirements. This in turn re‐enforces the need for a new generation of assembly machines: robot‐assisted assembly systems.

Citation

Aregger, B. and von Burg, P. (1989), "Flexibility drives gear motor assembly", Assembly Automation, Vol. 9 No. 2, pp. 71-74. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb004261

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MCB UP Ltd

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